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Waitrose to open first ‘off-grid’ store
One of the UK’s most successful retailers ,The John Lewis Partnership, which owns Waitrose supermarkets and John Lewis department stores, is to open its first ‘off-grid’ (his words) retail store, this year.
It will be located in the Isle of Wight, Charlie Mayfield, Chairman of the John Lewis Partnership said in private talks at the Bloomberg New Energy Finance Summit in London today The store will be large — between 15,000 and 20,000 sq ft. and powered by a mix of technologies, including combined heat and power.
Mayfield said the new off-grid store would deliver carbon savings of 60 per cent compared to one opened “two or three years ago”.
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March 17, 2010
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